American architect J. Meejin Yoon, founding principal of the Boston-based firm Höweler + Yoon (with partner Eric Höweler) and currently head of the architecture department at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, has been appointed as the next Dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning at Cornell University.
Yoon, herself an AAP alumna (B.Arch. '95), will commence her five-year term as the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean on January 1, 2019. She will be succeeding Kent Kleinman, AAP Dean from 2008 to 2018, and the current interim Dean, Kieran Donaghy.
In a statement published today, AAP praised Yoon for her achievements as department head at MIT and her experience as practitioner:
Yoon's current research interests include the role of technology in contemporary design culture, the instrumentality of design in the public realm, and the social and environmental responsibility of the built environment.
She has been teaching at MIT since 2001, beginning as an assistant professor in architecture. She was named director of the undergraduate program in architecture in 2010 and became the first female head of the architecture department in 2014. She has had a hand in transforming opportunities around design education at MIT, including the creation of the design minor for students across MIT, the transformation of the bachelor of science in art and design major, and the expansion of cross-disciplinary subjects and studios for the graduate program.
Yoon's focus on technology and design is applied in her independent practice, Höweler + Yoon Architecture LLP, cofounded with Eric Höweler (B.Arch. '94, M.Arch. '96), an associate professor at Harvard University.
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How weird to be the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean...sitting at her Gale and Ira Drukier desk in the Gale and Ira Drukier office looking out to the Gale and Ira Drukier lawn where the Gale and Ira Drukier students eat their Gale and Ira Drukier lunch sipping their Gale and Ira Drukier pumkin spice skinny soy lattes.
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